I am in Omaha, NE celebrating Christmas. It is nice to be here. I like Omaha, but for me, I can only take it in doses. There is nothing wrong with Omaha, but for some reason, if I am here too long, I start to just go nuts. I don’t know why. It’s obviously my problem. I think I was ready to leave Omaha a year before I did and that last year sort of left a bad taste in my mouth that echoes when I come back. I love my family and I love my friends here, but if I am here longer than a week, I just go stir crazy because I have nothing else to do here. I do my visiting, I do my reminiscing, then I sit and watch tv and get yelled at for not doing anything. Omaha is a great city and I wish I wanted to live here, but obviously Omaha isn’t the #1 place to be based out of when traveling doing comedy. Milwaukee isn’t #1 either, but it is PERFECT for where I am now. And who knows, maybe in a few years, when I am doing nothing but comedy, I may be back in Omaha bumming off of a loved one’s couch to save on money. Who knows, really? Honestly, I hope to be in New York before anywhere else, but who knows.
I am excited because I am performing at the Funynbone in Omaha tomorrow night and I think it will be cool for a lot of my family and friends to be in the audience. I am really excited for that. I gotta figure out what I wanna say. Actually, I am planning on having my brother, Scott, videotape it and so it should be pretty good quality… therefore watch for it on this site as I would love to put some clips of that show up here.
I hung out with a lot of people that I went to high school with and friends I haven’t seen in a long while last night at Clancy’s Pub in Omaha. It was great. Apparently a lot more people do visit my website than I ever realized. (You guys need to be signing my guest book!! Right now the only people that do are my brother and Conor and they always hide behind the guise of a dead president or Chuck Norris) I would love to hear from all you buttholes. I got the joy of riding home from Chicago to Omaha, NE with my grandparents the other day. For a full description of that sardine experience, check out my blog on my myspace page. (www.myspace.com/johnnycomic)